She rarely saw her father, Commander William Nyuon Bany, one of the founders of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, as he was away fighting, and died in 1996.
[1] She was raised by various step-mothers in Nairobi, Lodwar and at the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, where she did her primary and secondary schooling.
[5] She was trolled mercilessly after speaking out about Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton's allegation in 2018 that Victorians were “scared to go out in restaurants” because of “African gang violence”.
[2][7] Nyuon has written for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Saturday Paper,[7] The Guardian[8] the Australasian Review of African Studies, Australian Mosaic (quarterly magazine published by the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia[9]) and Offset (Victoria University’s annual literary magazine).
[12][13] On 30 June 2021 Nyuon made a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra, titled 'Australia Reimagined', in her role as chair of Harmony Alliance: Migrant and Refugee Women for Change.
[15] On 20 November 2021, Victoria University in Melbourne announced that Nyoun had been appointed as the Director of the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre.